A honey bee colony runs like a perfectly organised society, with the queen at its heart, laying eggs and producing pheromones that keep order. Yet sometimes, the workers take a shocking step and ...

The workers’ opportunistic egg-laying behavior was discovered in 2012 by researchers led by evolutionary biologist Karolina Kuszewska of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. With no queen around ...

It's an important discovery for protecting bee populations vital to agriculture. The study, published this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, shows that bumblebee queens who are exposed ...

The world's best-selling insecticide may impair the ability of a queen honey bee and her subjects to maintain a healthy colony, says new research led by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist.

New research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows that a widely-used class of nicotine-based insecticides is causing queen bees to lay substantially fewer eggs than normal. This particular ...

A group of researchers has established a laboratory-based method for tracking the fertility of honey bee queens, using a laboratory set-up that would mimic the key aspects of the hive environment and ...

Worker bees, wasps and ants are often considered neuter. But in many species they are females with ovaries, who although unable to mate, can lay unfertilized eggs which turn into males if reared. For ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1993), pp. 191-198 (8 pages) The study investigates whether worker policing via the selective removal of worker-laid male eggs occurs in normal ...

Neonicotinoids, a class of pesticide exceedingly common in the US and often brought up as a reason for the massive bee die-off known as colony collapse disorder, can affect bees in several different ...